A team of 20 burglars smashed into a high-end clothing store with a van and grabbed designer jeans, shoes and belts worth tens of thousands of dollars in 2-1/2 minutes, an operation that would even make the Navy SEALs envious
CISCO NYC is a chain of high-end clothing stores. Around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, a CISCO NYC store in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood was attacked by a 20-man special op burglary team that smashed into the store with a van. Three cars pulled in behind the van and parked in front of the store. Four men were inside the van and 16 additional men rushed into the store from the parked cars. They tried but were unable to back the van out.
The burglars must have planned the heist well ahead of time because they emptied the shelves only of the most expensive jeans, shoes and belts in the store. They grabbed Giuseppe-brand shoes that cost as much as $1,000 a pair, jeans that go for $400 to $800, and belts that run as high as $350 and up. Their loot was worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Some of the thieves entered the store carrying large garbage bags. They loaded up the parked cars. Some of them reentered the store to grab more loot. And several even reentered the store a second time. The whole operation was over in 2-1/2 minutes. The burglar alarm was going off the whole time, but by the time the cops arrived, the burglars were long gone. The swiftness and precision of this operation would even make the Navy SEALs envious.
Lately there has been a rash of similar burglary operations at high-end stores in Chicago and its suburbs, but none of them involved as many thieves as the smash and grab operation at the CISCO NYC store.
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